Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-09-22
Bill Nye ON Hotel changes

Bill Nye, In the New York World:
America has made many gigantic strides.
aside from those made at the battle Of
Bull Run, and her people spend much
of their time pointing with pride TO her
remarkable progress, but we are prone
to dwell TOO much upon our advantages
as summer resort and our adroit meas
ufes of deciding the presidency before
we are asked, while we forget some oil
our more important improvements, like
the elevated railroad and the American
hotel.
Let us, for moment, look at the great
changes that have been wrought In hotels
during the past century. How marked
has been the Improvement and how
wonderful the advancement. Everything
has been changed. Even the towels
have been changed.
Electric bells, coDsisting of q long and
alert wire with an overcoat button ct
one end and reticent boy OF the other,
have taken the place of the human
voice and q iow-browed red.eim club.
When once We were compelled to fall
down dark, narrow staircase, now we
can 90 down the elevator or wander down
the wrong stairway apd find ourselves in
| the laundry.
Where once we were mortified by
being compelled TO rise at table, reach
nine feet and stab porous pancake with
our fork, meantime wiping the milk
gravy out Of . large, ysilow bowl with
our coat tails, now we can hire tall,
1.-THE gentleman in full dress suit to
pass us the pancakes.
] Even the baT rooms OF American hotels
are changed. Once the bar tender wait.
ed till his customer Kan all his remarks
into nelong, hoarse word, with hic-
cough on one end, and then he took him
| by the COLLAR and threw him ont into the
cold and chaotic night. Now tho bar
tender gradually rises on the price oil
drinks till his customer is frozen out
and while he is gone to the reHding room
to borrow some more money the chemist
moves the bar somewhere else. and wher
the guest returns he finds barber shor
whore he thought he left bar room.
One hundred years, on their swift
lpiDiops, have borne away the big and
earnest dinner bell and the sRay.Saoked
hair trunk that surprised man 80 wher
he sat down upon it to consider what
clothes he would pat on fret.
| All these evidences Of our crude, EN-.
bryotic existence are gone, and in thei
places we have electric bells and Sara.
toga trunks wherein we may conceal on
hotel room and still have space enough
left for our clothes.
II 10 very rare now that we see
United States senator shaking two
year old MambrIno hair trunk up thre
flights OF stairs TO his room In order /,
secure the labor vote, Men, as we'll g
hotels and hotel soap, have changed
Where once cake OF soap would onI,
last few weeks, science has come ii
and perfected a style OF pink soap, Ga
vored with vanilla. that will last TO
years, enc new siippery-eim towel thu
ID absolutely inpervioue to moisture
} Hand in hand, thia soap and towel a
! gsyly down the corridors OF time, vel
j coming the coming and speeding th
parting guest, jumping deity ont OF th
hands Of the arist0craay into the hand
of . reoeiver, but always calm, smooth
. Mature did not fis3me 10 be the So,
. cessfnl guest ct hotel. can see VII
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